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The title page of a book, thesis or other written work is the page at or near the front which displays its title, subtitle, author, publisher, and edition. (A half title, by contrast, displays only the title of a work.)

1 In books
2 In academic publishing
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

In books[edit]

The title page is one of the most important parts of the "front matter" or "preliminaries" of a book, as the data on it and its verso (together known as the "title leaf") are used to establish the "title proper and usually, though not necessarily, the statement of responsibility and the data relating to publication".^[1] This determines the way the book is cited in library catalogs and academic references.

The title page often shows the title of the work, the person or body responsible for its intellectual content, and the imprint, which contains the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication.^[2] Particularly in paperback editions it may contain a shorter title than the cover or lack a descriptive subtitle. Further information about the publication of the book, including its copyright information, is frequently printed on the verso of the title page. Also often included there are the ISBN and a "printer's key", also known as the "number line", which indicates the print run to which the volume belongs.

The first printed books, or incunabula, did not have title pages: the text simply begins on the first page, and the book is often identified by the initial words—the incipit—of the text proper.

In academic publishing[edit]

The title page of a thesis or essay is the work's first page. It lists the title of the work and the name of the author.

In the case of an academic paper, the title page also lists class information (such as the course name and number), identification information (such as the student number), the date, name of the professor, and name of the institution. The title page is not numbered.

Title pages are not required in all citation styles; instead, some styles require that the same information is placed at the top of the essay's first page.

The title page for a thesis contains the full title, the author's name and academic credentials, the degree-granting faculty and department name, the name of the university and date of graduation, and the universal copyright symbol. The thesis title page is usually page i, but is not numbered; the abstract (page ii) is the first numbered page.

References[edit]

^ Gorman, Michael and Paul W. Winkler (eds.), Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 2nd ed., London, Library Association, 1978, 'Glossary', p.571
^ Cowley, John Duncan (1970), Bibliographical description and cataloguing, New York: Burt Franklin, p. 29–32, 77–88, archived from the original on 2018-01-21

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11. Essay – An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the authors own argument — but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have traditionally been sub-classified as formal and informal, Essays are commonly used as literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays, while brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Lockes An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthuss An Essay on the Principle of Population are counterexamples. In some countries, essays have become a part of formal education. The concept of an essay has been extended to other mediums beyond writing, a film essay is a movie that often incorporates documentary filmmaking styles, and focuses more on the evolution of a theme or idea. A photographic essay covers a topic with a series of photographs that may have accompanying text or captions. An essay has been defined in a variety of ways, one definition is a prose composition with a focused subject of discussion or a long, systematic discourse. It is difficult to define the genre into which essays fall, aldous Huxley, a leading essayist, gives guidance on the subject. He notes that the essay is a device for saying almost everything about almost anything, and adds that by tradition, almost by definition. Furthermore, Huxley argues that essays belong to a species whose extreme variability can be studied most effectively within a three-poled frame of reference. Their art consists of setting forth, passing judgment upon, the abstract-universal, In this pole we find those essayists who do their work in the world of high abstractions, who are never personal and who seldom mention the particular facts of experience. Huxley adds that the most satisfying essays. make the best not of one, the word essay derives from the French infinitive essayer, to try or to attempt. In English essay first meant a trial or an attempt, for the rest of his life, he continued revising previously published essays and composing new ones. Francis Bacons essays, published in form in 1597,1612. Ben Jonson first used the word essayist in English in 1609, English essayists included Robert Burton and Sir Thomas Browne. In France, Michel de Montaignes three volume Essais in the mid 1500s contain over 100 examples widely regarded as the predecessor of the modern essay, in Italy, Baldassare Castiglione wrote about courtly manners in his essay Il Libro del oregano. In the 17th century, the Jesuit Baltasar Gracián wrote about the theme of wisdom, in the 18th and 19th centuries, Edmund Burke and Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote essays for the general public. In the 20th century, a number of essayists tried to explain the new movements in art, whereas some essayists used essays for strident political themes, Robert Louis Stevenson and Willa Cather wrote lighter essays

12. Class (education) – A class in education has a variety of related meanings. It can be the group of students which attends a course or lesson at a university, school, or other educational institution. It can refer to a course itself, e. g. a class in Shakespearean drama. It can be the group of students at the level in an institution, the freshman class, or the group of students which graduates from the institution at the same time. The term can be used in a more general context. It can also refer to the classroom, in the building or venue where such a lesson is conducted, in some countries educational systems, it can refer to a subdivision of the students in an academic department, consisting of a cohort of students of the same academic level. For example, a departments sophomores may be divided into three classes

13. Professor – Professor is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a person who professes being usually an expert in arts or sciences, in much of the world, the unqualified word professor is used formally to indicate the highest academic rank, informally known as full professor. Professors conduct original research and commonly teach undergraduate, graduate, or professional courses in their fields of expertise, in universities with graduate schools, professors may mentor and supervise graduate students conducting research for a thesis or dissertation. Professors typically hold a Ph. D. another doctorate or a different terminal degree, some professors hold a masters degree or a professional degree, such as an M. D. as their highest degree. The term professor was first used in the late 14th century to one who teaches a branch of knowledge. As a title that is prefixed to a name, it dates from 1706, the hort form prof is recorded from 1838. The term professor is used with a different meaning, ne professing religion. This canting use of the word comes down from the Elizabethan period, a professor is an accomplished and recognized academic. In most Commonwealth nations, as well as northern Europe, the professor is the highest academic rank at a university. In the United States and Canada, the title of professor is also the highest rank, in these areas, professors are scholars with doctorate degrees or equivalent qualifications who teach in four-year colleges and universities. An emeritus professor is a given to selected retired professors with whom the university wishes to continue to be associated due to their stature. Emeritus professors do not receive a salary, but they are often given office or lab space, and use of libraries, labs, the term professor is also used in the titles assistant professor and associate professor, which are not considered professor-level positions in some European countries. In Australia, the associate professor is used in place of reader, ranking above senior lecturer. However, such professors usually do not undertake academic work for the granting institution, in general, the title of professor is strictly used for academic positions rather than for those holding it on honorary basis. Other roles of professorial tasks depend on the institution, its legacy, protocols, place, a professor typically earns a base salary and a range of benefits. In addition, a professor who undertakes additional roles in her institution earns additional income, some professors also earn additional income by moonlighting in other jobs, such as consulting, publishing academic or popular press books, or giving speeches or coaching executives. Some fields give professors more opportunities for outside work, the anticipated average earnings with performance-related bonuses for a German professor is €71,500. The salaries of civil servant professors in Spain are fixed in a basis, but there are some bonus related to performance and seniority

14. Information – In other words, it is the answer to a question of some kind. It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, as it regards data, the informations existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer, while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer. At its most fundamental, information is any propagation of cause, Information can be encoded into various forms for transmission and interpretation. It can also be encrypted for safe storage and communication, the uncertainty of an event is measured by its probability of occurrence and is inversely proportional to that. The more uncertain an event, the information is required to resolve uncertainty of that event. The bit is a unit of information, but other units such as the nat may be used. Example, information in one fair coin ﬂip, log2 =1 bit, the concept that information is the message has different meanings in different contexts. The English word was derived from the Latin stem of the nominative. Inform itself comes from the Latin verb informare, which means to give form, eidos can also be associated with thought, proposition, or even concept. The ancient Greek word for information is πληροφορία, which transliterates from πλήρης fully and it literally means fully bears or conveys fully. In modern Greek language the word Πληροφορία is still in use and has the same meaning as the word information in English. In addition to its meaning, the word Πληροφορία as a symbol has deep roots in Aristotles semiotic triangle. In this regard it can be interpreted to communicate information to the one decoding that specific type of sign, from the stance of information theory, information is taken as an ordered sequence of symbols from an alphabet, say an input alphabet χ, and an output alphabet ϒ. Information processing consists of a function that maps any input sequence from χ into an output sequence from ϒ. The mapping may be probabilistic or deterministic and it may have memory or be memoryless. Often information can be viewed as a type of input to an organism or system, inputs are of two kinds, some inputs are important to the function of the organism or system by themselves. In his book Sensory Ecology Dusenbery called these causal inputs, other inputs are important only because they are associated with causal inputs and can be used to predict the occurrence of a causal input at a later time. Some information is important because of association with information but eventually there must be a connection to a causal input

15. Roman numeral – The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, Roman numerals, as used today, are based on seven symbols, The use of Roman numerals continued long after the decline of the Roman Empire. The numbers 1 to 10 are usually expressed in Roman numerals as follows, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, Numbers are formed by combining symbols and adding the values, so II is two and XIII is thirteen. Symbols are placed left to right in order of value. Named after the year of its release,2014 as MMXIV, the year of the games of the XXII Olympic Winter Games The standard forms described above reflect typical modern usage rather than a universally accepted convention. Usage in ancient Rome varied greatly and remained inconsistent in medieval, Roman inscriptions, especially in official contexts, seem to show a preference for additive forms such as IIII and VIIII instead of subtractive forms such as IV and IX. Both methods appear in documents from the Roman era, even within the same document, double subtractives also occur, such as XIIX or even IIXX instead of XVIII. Sometimes V and L are not used, with such as IIIIII. Such variation and inconsistency continued through the period and into modern times. Clock faces that use Roman numerals normally show IIII for four o’clock but IX for nine o’clock, however, this is far from universal, for example, the clock on the Palace of Westminster in London uses IV. Similarly, at the beginning of the 20th century, different representations of 900 appeared in several inscribed dates. For instance,1910 is shown on Admiralty Arch, London, as MDCCCCX rather than MCMX, although Roman numerals came to be written with letters of the Roman alphabet, they were originally independent symbols. The Etruscans, for example, used

16. Page layout – Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement of visual elements on a page. It generally involves organizational principles of composition to achieve specific communication objectives, the high-level page layout involves deciding on the overall arrangement of text and images, and possibly on the size or shape of the medium. It requires intelligence, sentience, and creativity, and is informed by culture, psychology, low-level pagination and typesetting are more mechanical processes. Given certain parameters - boundaries of areas, the typeface, font size. Until desktop publishing became dominant, these processes were still done by people, the result might be published as-is or might be tweaked by a graphic designer. With manuscripts, all of the elements are added by hand, so the creator can determine the layout directly as they create the work, any images would be created by engraving. This process is called imposition, and potentially includes arranging multiple pages to be printed on the sheet of paper which will later be folded. An imposition proof might be created to check the final placement, the invention of hot metal typesetting in 1884 sped up the typesetting process by allowing workers to produce slugs - entire lines of text - using a keyboard. The slugs were the result of metal being poured into molds temporarily assembled by the typesetting machine. The layout process remained the same as with metal type. Offset lithography allows the bright and dark areas of an image to control ink placement on the printing press and this means that if a single copy of the page can be created on paper and photographed, then any number of copies could be printed. Type could be set with a typewriter, or to achieve results comparable to letterpress. The IBM Selectric Composer, for example, could produce type of different size, different fonts, with photoengraving and halftone, physical photographs could be transferred into print directly, rather than relying on hand-made engravings. Completed pages become known as camera-ready, mechanicals or mechanical art and these machines became increasingly sophisticated, with computer-driven models able to store text on magnetic tape. In addition to being used as devices for computer operators. Printers attached directly to computers allowed them to print documents directly, early dot matrix printing was sufficient for office documents, but was of too low a quality for professional typesetting. Inkjet printing and laser printing did produce sufficient quality type, with modern desktop publishing software such as flagship software Adobe Indesign and cloud-based Lucidpress, the layout process can occur entirely on-screen. A finished document can be printed as the camera-ready version

17. Typography – Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, the term typography is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process. Type design is a closely related craft, sometimes considered part of typography, most typographers do not design typefaces, Typography also may be used as a decorative device, unrelated to communication of information. Until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation, as the capability to create typography has become ubiquitous, the application of principles and best practices developed over generations of skilled workers and professionals has diminished. Babylonian cylinder seals were used to create an impression on a surface by rolling the seal on wet clay, Typography also was implemented in the Phaistos Disc, an enigmatic Minoan printed item from Crete, which dates to between 1850 and 1600 B. C. It has been proposed that Roman lead pipe inscriptions were created with movable type printing, the essential criterion of type identity was met by medieval print artifacts such as the Latin Pruefening Abbey inscription of 1119 that was created by the same technique as the Phaistos Disc. The silver altarpiece of patriarch Pellegrinus II in the cathedral of Cividale was printed with individual letter punches, apparently, the same printing technique may be found in tenth to twelfth century Byzantine reliquaries. Other early examples include individual letter tiles where the words are formed by assembling single letter tiles in the desired order, Typography with movable type was invented during the eleventh-century Song dynasty in China by Bi Sheng. His movable type system was manufactured from ceramic materials, and clay type printing continued to be practiced in China until the Qing Dynasty, wang Zhen was one of the pioneers of wooden movable type. Although the wooden type was more durable under the mechanical rigors of handling, repeated printing wore the character faces down, metal movable type was first invented in Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty, approximately 1230. Hua Sui introduced bronze type printing to China in 1490 AD, the diffusion of both movable-type systems was limited and the technology did not spread beyond East and Central Asia, however. Modern lead-based movable type, along with the printing press, is most often attributed to the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg in 1439. His type pieces, made from an alloy, suited printing purposes so well that the alloy is still used today. Gutenberg developed specialized techniques for casting and combining cheap copies of letter punches in the vast quantities required to print multiple copies of texts and this technical breakthrough was instrumental in starting the Printing Revolution and the first book printed with lead-based movable type was the Gutenberg Bible. Rapidly advancing technology revolutionized typography in the twentieth century. During the 1960s some camera-ready typesetting could be produced in any office or workshop with stand-alone machines such as introduced by IBM. During the mid-1980s personal computers such as the Macintosh allowed type designers to create typefaces digitally using commercial graphic design software, Digital technology also enabled designers to create more experimental typefaces as well as the practical typefaces of traditional typography. Designs for typefaces could be created faster with the new technology, the cost for developing typefaces was drastically lowered, becoming widely available to the masses

18. Font – In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a set of type, one piece for each glyph. In modern usage, with the advent of digital typography, font is frequently synonymous with typeface, in particular, the use of vector or outline fonts means that different sizes of a typeface can be dynamically generated from one design. The word font derives from Middle French fonte melted, a casting, the term refers to the process of casting metal type at a type foundry. In a manual printing house the word font would refer to a set of metal type that would be used to typeset an entire page. Unlike a digital typeface it would not include a definition of each character. A font when bought new would often be sold as 12pt 14A 34a, meaning that it would be a size 12-point font containing 14 uppercase As, given the name upper and lowercase because of which case the metal type was located in, otherwise known as majuscule and minuscule. The rest of the characters would be provided in quantities appropriate for the distribution of letters in that language. Some metal type characters required in typesetting, such as dashes, spaces and line-height spacers, were not part of a specific font, line spacing is still often called leading, because the strips used for line spacing were made of lead. In the 1880s–90s, hot lead typesetting was invented, in which type was cast as it was set, either piece by piece or in entire lines of type at one time. In European alphabetic scripts, i. e. Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, the main properties are the stroke width, called weight, the style or angle. The regular or standard font is sometimes labeled roman, both to distinguish it from bold or thin and from italic or oblique. The keyword for the default, regular case is often omitted for variants and never repeated, otherwise it would be Bulmer regular italic, Bulmer bold regular, Roman can also refer to the language coverage of a font, acting as a shorthand for Western European. Different fonts of the same typeface may be used in the work for various degrees of readability and emphasis. The weight of a font is the thickness of the character outlines relative to their height. A typeface may come in fonts of many weights, from ultra-light to extra-bold or black, four to six weights are not unusual, many typefaces for office, web and non-professional use come with just a normal and a bold weight which are linked together. If no bold weight is provided, many renderers support faking a bolder font by rendering the outline a second time at an offset, the base weight differs among typefaces, that means one normal font may appear bolder than some other normal font. For example, fonts intended to be used in posters are often quite bold by default while fonts for long runs of text are rather light, therefore, weight designations in font names may differ in regard to the actual absolute stroke weight or density of glyphs in the font

19. Book cover – A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. This article is concerned with modern mechanically produced covers, before the early nineteenth century, books were hand-bound, in the case of luxury medieval manuscripts using materials such as gold, silver and jewels. For hundreds of years, book bindings had functioned as a device for the expensively printed or hand-made pages. In the 1820s great changes began to occur in how a book might be covered, not only were the new types of book-covers cheaper to produce, they were also printable, using multi-colour lithography, and later, half-tone illustration processes. Techniques borrowed from the nineteenth-century poster-artists gradually infiltrated the book industry, the book cover became more than just a protection for the pages, taking on the function of advertising, and communicating information about the text inside. Some of the first radically modern cover designs were produced in the Soviet Union during the 1920s by avant-gardists such as Alexander Rodchenko, another highly influential early book cover designer was Aubrey Beardsley, thanks to his striking covers for the first four volumes of The Yellow Book. In the post-war era, book covers have become important as the book industry has become commercially competitive. Covers now give detailed hints about the style, genre and subject of the book and this can differ from country to country because of other tastes of the markets. So translated books can also have different book-accessories such as belonging to childrens books. The era of internet sales has not diminished the importance of the book cover, as it now continues its role in a two-dimensional digital form, helping to identify. The Book Cover Archive *Decorated Publishers Bindings-Grand Valley State University Archives, on the topic of cover art

20. Buckram – Buckram is a stiff cloth, made of cotton, and still occasionally linen, which is used to cover and protect books. Buckram can also be used to stiffen clothes, modern buckrams have been stiffened by soaking in a substance, usually now pyroxylin, to fill the gaps between the fibres. In the Middle Ages, bokeram was fine cotton cloth, not stiff, the etymology of the term is uncertain, the commonly mentioned derivation from Bokhara is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, uncertain. Millinery buckram is different from bookbinding buckram and it is impregnated with a starch, which allows it to be softened in water, pulled over a hat block, and left to dry into a hard shape. White buckram is most commonly used in hatmaking, though black is available as well, millinery buckram comes in three weights, baby buckram, single-ply buckram, and double buckram. American-made Buckram book cloth is a poly-cotton base cloth coated in aqueous acrylic and it was designed to withstand heavy use in libraries and offers strength, moisture resistance and mildew resistance. Buckram is available in different grades and it also can be used in electric boards for binding and is very stretchable. In the US, F grade buckram is offered in 15 glossy colors and it meets specifications for use in textbooks and exceeds performance specifications for library binding. Both grades are suitable for reference books, hymnals, textbooks, albums, looseleaf binders, menus and other editions that require an extra level of protection

21. Leather – Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhide and skin, often cattle hide. It can be produced at manufacturing scales ranging from cottage industry to heavy industry, people use leather to make various goods—including clothing, bookbinding, leather wallpaper, and as a furniture covering. It is produced in a variety of types and styles. Several tanning processes transform hides and skins into leather, Chrome-tanned leather, invented in 1858, is tanned using chromium sulfate and it is more supple and pliable than vegetable-tanned leather and does not discolor or lose shape as drastically in water as vegetable-tanned. It is also known as wet-blue for its color derived from the chromium, more exotic colors are possible when using chrome tanning. The chrome tanning method usually only takes a day to finish, and it is reported that chrome-tanned leather adds up to 80% of the global leather supply. Vegetable-tanned leather is tanned using tannins and other found in different vegetable matter, such as tree bark prepared in bark mills, wood, leaves, fruits. It is supple and brown in color, with the exact shade depending on the mix of chemicals and it is the only form of leather suitable for use in leather carving or stamping. Vegetable-tanned leather is not stable in water, it tends to discolor, so if left to soak and then dried it shrinks, in hot water, it shrinks drastically and partly congeals—becoming rigid, and eventually brittle. Boiled leather is an example of this, where the leather has been hardened by being immersed in hot water, historically, it was occasionally used as armour after hardening, and it has also been used for book binding. Aldehyde-tanned leather is tanned using glutaraldehyde or oxazolidine compounds and this is the leather that most tanners refer to as wet-white leather due to its pale cream or white color. It is the type of chrome-free leather, often seen in shoes for infants. Formaldehyde tanning is another aldehyde tanning method, brain-tanned leathers fall into this category, and are exceptionally water absorbent. Brain tanned leathers are made by a process that uses emulsified oils, often those of animal brains such as deer, cattle. They are known for their softness and washability. Chamois leather also falls into the category of aldehyde tanning, and like brain tanning, produces a porous, chamois leather is made using marine oils that oxidize easily to produce the aldehydes that tan the leather to color it. Rose-tanned leather is a variation of oil tanning and brain tanning. Rose-tanned leather tanned leaves a powerful rose fragrance even years from when it is manufactured and it has been called the most valuable leather on earth, but this is mostly due to the high cost of rose otto and its labor-intensive tanning process

22. Treasure binding – The actual bookbinding technique is the same as for other medieval books, with the folios, normally of vellum, stitched together and bound to wooden cover boards. The metal framework of the binding is then fixed, normally by tacks. Treasure bindings appear to have existed from at least Late Antiquity, though there are no surviving examples from so early, and Early Medieval examples are very rare. They were less used by the end of the Middle Ages, but a few continued to be produced in the West even up to the present day, and many more in areas where Eastern Orthodoxy predominated. The bindings were used on grand illuminated manuscripts, especially Gospel books designed for the altar and use in church services. The vast majority of these bookbindings were later destroyed as their gold and jewels were removed by looters. Others survive without their jewels, and many are no longer attached to a book. Some survive in major libraries - for example the Morgan Library in New York City, the John Rylands Library in Manchester, the British Library in London and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. As the carved ivory reliefs often used could not usually be recycled, other examples are recorded in documentary sources but though the books survive the covers do not. The Book of Kells lost its binding after a robbery, in the Eastern Orthodox churches treasure bindings have continued to be produced, mainly for liturgical Gospel books, up to the present day, and exist in many different artistic styles. Other styles of binding using gems, and typically pearls, have a covering of velvet or other textile, to which the gems are sewn or otherwise fixed. These were more likely to be for the books of a grand person, especially the prayer books and books of hours of female royalty. The techniques for producing jewelled bookbinding have evolved over the course of history with the technologies and these thongs then came to be laced into the boards and covered entirely by leather. Boards afforded the opportunity for decorative ornamentation, with metal casings set into the wood for the installation of precious gems, stones, the cover material would then be laid over the casings by hand and cut around the rim of the casings to reveal the jewels. The books typically bound were Gospels and other religious books made for use within the church, decorative book clasps or straps were made with jewels or repoussé metal from the 12th century onward, particularly in Holland and Germany. These were even carried into battle as a kind of standard, jewelled slipcases or boxes were also used to house small editions of the Qur’an during this time period. These pieces can be seen in portraits from the period and records of jewels from the reigns of Henry VIII, some bindings were created to contain relics of saints, and these large books were sometimes seen suspended from golden rods and carried in the public processions of Byzantine emperors. Byzantine and Western medieval treasure bindings are not entirely unified in style

23. Endpaper – The endpapers or end-papers of a book are the pages that consist of a double-size sheet folded, with one half pasted against an inside cover, and the other serving as the first free page. Thus, the front endpapers precede the title page and the text, booksellers sometimes refer to the front end paper as FEP. Before mass printing in the 20th century it was common for the endpapers of books to have paper marbling, sometimes the endpapers are used for maps or other relevant information. They are the place to put bookplates, or an owners inscription. As of 2010 there are styles of endsheets or endpapers that are specifically designed for use with different bindings. For example, endsheets reinforced with cloth are used in sewn bindings, the cloth holds the stitches and prevents the paper from perforating and tearing. Other styles are designed for use with perfect binders, the Folded Tabbed End sheet is collated with the text pages, milled and bound along with the book block. There are also many styles of endpapers that are engineered to meet standards and library binding standards as well as endsheets for conservation

24. Paper marbling – Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. The patterns are the result of color floated on either water or a viscous solution known as size. Through several centuries, people have applied marbled materials to a variety of surfaces and it is often employed as a writing surface for calligraphy, and especially book covers and endpapers in bookbinding and stationery. Part of its appeal is that each print is a unique monotype, there are several methods for making marbled papers. A shallow tray is filled with water, and various kinds of ink or paint colors are applied to the surface with an ink brush. Various additives or surfactant chemicals are used to float the colors. A drop of color made of plain water with the addition of surfactant is used to drive the drop of color into a ring. The process is repeated until the surface of the water is covered with concentric rings, the floating colors are then carefully manipulated either by blowing on them directly or through a straw, fanning the colors, or carefully using a human hair to stir the colors. In the 19th century, Tokutaro Yagi, the Kyoto master of Japanese marbling, developed a method that uses a piece of bamboo to gently stir the colors. A sheet of paper is then carefully laid onto the water surface to capture the floating design. The paper, which is made of kozo, must be unsized. Another method of marbling more familiar to Europeans and Americans is made on the surface of a viscous mucilage, the term Turkish was most likely used as a reference to the fact that many Europeans first encountered the art in Istanbul. Since the late 19th century, an extract of the carrageenan-rich alga known as Irish moss, has been employed for sizing. Today, many marblers use powdered carrageenan extracted from various seaweeds, another plant-derived mucilage is made from sodium alginate. In recent years, a size made from hydroxypropyl methylcellulose. In the size-based method, colors made from pigments are mixed with a surfactant such as ox gall, sometimes, oil or turpentine may be added to a color, to achieve special effects. The colors are then spattered or dropped onto the size, one color after another, straw from the broom corn was used to make a kind of whisk for sprinkling the paint, or horsehair to create a kind of drop-brush. Each successive layer of pigment spreads slightly less than the last, once the colors are laid down, various tools and implements such as rakes, combs and styluses are often used in a series of movements to create more intricate designs

25. Book frontispiece – A frontispiece in books generally refers to a decorative or informative illustration facing a books title page, being the verso opposite the recto title page. While some books depict thematic elements, other books feature the portrait as the frontispiece. In medieval illuminated manuscripts, a miniature showing the book or text being presented was often used as a frontispiece. The word comes from the French frontispice, or the late Latin frontispicium, from the Latin frons, in English, it was originally used as an architectural term, referring to the decorative facade of a building. By then, the English spelling had also morphed, by way of folk etymology, book design Prints & People, A Social History of Printed Pictures, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on book frontispieces

26. Edition notice – The edition notice is the page in a book containing information about the current edition, usually on the back of the title page. It often contains a notice, legal notices, publication information, printing history, cataloguing information from a national library. At the bottom of the edition notice one often finds a line of numbers, some of which may appear to be missing and these indicate the books print run. Sometimes, there also be a warning indicating that the book sold without a cover is a stripped book

27. Dedication (publishing) – A dedication is the expression of friendly connection or thanks by the author towards another person. The dedication has its own place on the page and is part of the front matter. In newer books, the dedication is located on a page on its own. It can occupy one or multiple lines depending on its importance and it can also be in a longer version as a dedication letter or dedication preface at the books beginning. Nowadays, the function is mainly part of the self-portrayal of the author in front of his or her readers. Evidence of dedications is provided back into the Classical antiquity, besides the wish to express their gratitude towards a certain person, the authors often had also other reasons to dedicate their work to a particular person. A typical writer dedicated their book to a high standing personality -- to Fürsts or bishops -- or to a city, in many cases the petitioner was lucky and received a gift from the patron. In some cases, the writer groveled before the patron and a formal dedication contained often a very elaborate, in some cases not only the authors tried to get some money, but also the printers tried through dedications to cover a part of their costs. A book dedication can provide a glimpse into the life. For example, Lord Byron engaged in a feud with Robert Southey. Throughout time, book dedications were used to political statements or to condemn war. Author Toni Morrison dedicated Beloved, her 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a slave who killed her daughter, to Sixty Million. Furthermore, book dedications reflect the tastes and mores of society, whereas many Elizabethan dedications were erudite and witty, some modern authors have abandoned literary pretense, sometimes using profanity to shock or amuse their audiences. The dedication is not to be confounded with the dedication of a single copy. Homage Front matter Prologue Paratext Jost Hochuli, Buchgestaltung in der Schweiz, ISBN 3-908102-10-3 Reclams Sachlexikon des Buches. ISBN 3-15-010542-0 Diana Stört, Form- und Funktionswandel der Widmung, zur historischen Entwicklung und Typologisierung eines Paratextes. In, Aus meiner Hand dies Buch, hrsg. von Volker Kaukoreit, Marcel Atze und Michael Hansel. Wien, Turia + Kant 2007, S. 79-112, ISBN 3-85132-476-5 The dictionary definition of dedication at Wiktionary

28. Epigraph (literature) – In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component. The epigraph may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a literary canon. The long quotation from Dantes Inferno that prefaces T. S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is part of a speech by one of the damned in Dantes Hell. Linking it to the monologue which forms Eliots poem adds a comment, the epigraph to Eliots Gerontion is a quotation from Shakespeares Measure for Measure. Eliots The Hollow Men uses the line Mistah Kurtz, he dead from Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness as one of its two epigraphs, the epigraph to Theodore Herzls Altneuland is If you will it, it is no dream. Which became a slogan of the Zionist movement, the epigraph to Fyodor Dostoyevskys The Brothers Karamazov is John 12,24. Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. The epigraphs to the preamble of Georges Perecs Life, A Users Manual and to the book as a whole warn the reader that tricks are going to be played and that all will not be what it seems. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers OHaras poem Atavism as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild, as an epigraph to The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway famously quotes Gertrude Stein, You are all a lost generation. The epigraph to E. L. Doctorows Ragtime quotes Scott Joplins instructions to those who play his music and it is never right to play Ragtime fast. This stands in contrast to the pace of American society at the turn of the 20th century. A Samuel Johnson quote is used as an epigraph in Hunter S. Thompsons novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, stephen King uses many epigraphs in his writing, usually to mark the beginning of another section in the novel. An unusual example is The Stand where he uses lyrics from songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. J. K. Rowlings novels frequently begin with epigraphs relating to the themes explored, Harry Potter, some authors use fictional quotations that purport to be related to the fiction of the work itself. Examples include, John Greens The Fault in Our Stars has a quotation from a novel, An Imperial Affliction. F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby opens with a poem entitled Then Wear the Gold Hat, DInvilliers is a character in Fitzgeralds first novel, This Side of Paradise. This cliché is parodied by Diana Wynne Jones in The Tough Guide To Fantasyland, a poem at the beginning of J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings describes the Rings of Power, the central plot device of the trilogy. Fantasy literature may also include epigraphs, le Guins Earthsea series includes epigraphs supposedly quoted from the epic poetry of the Earthsea archipelago

29. Table of contents – Pliny the Elder credits Quintus Valerius Soranus as the first author to provide a table of contents to help readers navigate a lengthy work. Plinys own table of contents for his encyclopedic Historia naturalis may be viewed online in Latin and in English, the depth of detail in tables of contents depends on the length of the work, with longer works having less. Formal reports also have a table of contents, printed tables of contents indicate page numbers where each part starts, while digital ones offer links to go to each part. The format and location of the numbers is a matter of style for the publisher. In some cases, the number appears before the text. If a book or document contains chapters, articles, or stories by different authors, matter preceding the table of contents is generally not listed there. However, all pages except the cover are counted. Example with leaders, Chapter 1, Getting Started,3 Example without leaders, Chapter 1, Getting Started 1 Introduction 2 Next Steps 3 Example with authors,1. Introduction to Biology Arthur C. Smith 12, chang 24 Example with descriptive text, Chapter 13 In which we first meet our hero and heroine, attend a gala feast, and begin an unexpected journey. Chapter 212 The journey takes a turn, and new villains are discovered. The Chicago Manual of Style Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, Walter E. Oliu

30. Table (information) – A table is an arrangement of data in rows and columns, or possibly in a more complex structure. Tables are widely used in communication, research, and data analysis, Tables appear in print media, handwritten notes, computer software, architectural ornamentation, traffic signs, and many other places. The precise conventions and terminology for describing tables vary depending on the context, further, tables differ significantly in variety, structure, flexibility, notation, representation and use. In books and technical articles, tables are typically presented apart from the text in numbered and captioned floating blocks. A table consists of an arrangement of rows and columns. This is a description of the most basic kind of table. The elements of a table may be grouped, segmented, or arranged in different ways. Additionally, a table may include metadata, annotations, a header, the following illustrates a simple table with three columns and seven rows. The first row is not counted, because it is used to display the column names. This is called a header row, the concept of dimension is also a part of basic terminology. Any simple table can be represented as a table by normalizing the data values into ordered hierarchies. A common example of such a table is a multiplication table, in multi-dimensional tables, each cell in the body of the table relates to the values at the beginnings of the column, the row, and other structures in more complex tables. Tables can be described as wide or narrow in format, as a communication tool, a table allows a form of generalization of information from an unlimited number of different social or scientific contexts. It provides a way to convey information that might otherwise not be obvious or readily understood. For example, in the diagram, two alternate representations of the same information are presented side by side. On the left is the NFPA704 standard fire diamond with example values indicated and on the right is a table displaying the same values. Both representations convey essentially the same information, but the representation is arguably more comprehensible to someone who is not familiar with the NFPA704 standard. The tabular representation may not, however, be ideal for every circumstance, there are several specific situations in which tables are routinely used as a matter of custom or formal convention

31. Foreword – A foreword is a piece of writing sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature. Typically written by other than the primary author of the work. Later editions of a book sometimes have a new foreword prepended, unlike a preface, a foreword is always signed. Information essential to the text is generally placed in a set of explanatory notes, or perhaps in an introduction. The pages containing the foreword and preface are typically not numbered as part of the main work, if the front matter is paginated, it uses lowercase Roman numerals. If there is both a foreword and a preface, the foreword appears first, both appear before the introduction, which may be paginated either with the front matter or the main text, the word foreword was first used around the mid-17th century. It was possibly a translation of Dutch voorwoord or German Vorwort. Afterword Epigraph Introduction Preface Prologue The difference between a preface, foreword, and introduction – PatMcNees. com

32. Preface – A preface or proem is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the works author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword, the preface often closes with acknowledgments of those who assisted in the literary work. A preface is usually signed, a foreword by another person is always signed, information essential to the main text is generally placed in a set of explanatory notes, or perhaps in an Introduction that may be paginated with Arabic numerals, rather than in the preface. The term preface can also mean any preliminary or introductory statement, preface comes from the Latin, meaning either spoken before or made before. While the former source of the word could have meaning the same as prologue. With this meaning of stated intention, British publishing up to at least the middle of the twentieth century distinguished between preface and introduction, epigraph Exordium Introduction Postface Prologue A history of the preface in several languages is contained in, Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. The Social Dimensions of Fiction, On the Rhetoric and Function of Prefacing Novels in the Nineteenth-Century Canadas, the difference between a preface, foreword, and introduction, patmcnees. com Media related to Prefaces at Wikimedia Commons The dictionary definition of proem at Wiktionary

33. Introduction (writing) – In an essay, article, or book, an introduction is a beginning section which states the purpose and goals of the following writing. This is generally followed by the body and conclusion, the introduction typically describes the scope of the document and gives the brief explanation or summary of the document. It may also explain certain elements that are important to the essay if explanations are not part of the main text, the readers can have an idea about the following text before they actually start reading it. Ln technical writing, the introduction typically includes one or more standard subsections, abstract or summary, preface, acknowledgments, alternatively, the section labeled introduction itself may be a brief section found side-by-side with abstract, foreword, etc. In this case the set of sections that come before the body of the book are known as the front matter, when the book is divided into numbered chapters, by convention the introduction and any other front-matter sections are unnumbered and precede chapter 1. Keeping the concept of the introduction the same, different documents have different styles to introduce the written text, for example, the introduction of a Functional Specification consists of information that the whole document is yet to explain. If a Userguide is written, the introduction is about the product, in a report, the introduction gives a summary about the report contents. Dramatic structure Lead paragraph Foreword Preamble Preface Prologue Epigraph Leora Freedman, Jerry Plotnick

34. Prologue – A prologue or prolog is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information. The Ancient Greek prólogos included the meaning of prologue, but was of wider significance. The importance, therefore, of the prologue in Greek drama was very great, it sometimes almost took the place of a romance, to which, or to an episode in which, the play itself succeeded. It is believed that the prologue in this form was practically the invention of Euripides, the point precisely is that, to an Athenian audience, it was useful and pertinent, as supplying just what they needed to make the succeeding scenes intelligible. He seems, in such a typical prologue as that to the Hippolytus, to be accepting a conventional formula, many of the existing Greek prologues may be later in date than the plays they illustrate, or may contain large interpolations. Molière revived the Plautian prologue in the introduction to his Amphitryon, racine introduced Piety as the speaker of a prologue which opened his choral tragedy of Esther. The tradition of the ancients vividly affected our own early dramatists, though less prevalent in the Elizabethan than in the Classical or Restoration periods, prologues of Renaissance plays are an interesting composite of styles and forms. Bruster and Weimann further argue that the prologue of the Early Modern period serves as a liminal entity, firstly, a prologue is at once the text which is spoken, the actor who speaks that text, and the performance given by the actor in speaking. Ben Jonson has been credited with using the prologue as a means to remind the audience of the relationships between themselves and all aspects of the performance they are about to view. In performance, the actor appeared dressed all in black and this is in contrast to the costume of the play proper, where elaborate and colourful costumes were worn, in the fashion of the day. The prologue removed his hat and wore no makeup and he probably carried a book or scroll, or a placard displaying the title of the play. He was introduced by three short trumpet calls, on the third of which he entered and took a position downstage and he made three bows in the current fashion of the court, and then addressed the audience. The Elizabethan prologue was unique in incorporating aspects of classical and medieval traditions. Epigraph Epilogue Foreword Introduction Preface Prolegomena Attribution This article incorporates text from a now in the public domain, Chisholm, Hugh. The dictionary definition of prologue at Wiktionary

35. Printer's mark – A printers mark, device, emblem or insignia was a symbol used as a trademark by early printers starting in the 15th century. The first printers mark is found in the 1457 Mainz Psalter by Johann Fust, one of the most well-known old printers marks is the dolphin and anchor, first used by the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius as his mark in 1502. The database Printers Devices of the Ancient Book Section of the Library of the University of Barcelona, was launched in October 1998, bookplate Colophon Union label Roberts, W. Printers marks, a chapter in the history of typography. London, New York, George Bell & Sons, project Gutenberg Ebook #25663 Released Jun 1,2008. Printers marks from digitized rare books at the Linda Hall Library

36. Body text – Body text is the text forming the main content of a book, magazine, web page or other printed matter. This is as a contrast to both the headings on each page, and also the pages of front matter that form the introduction to a book, body text has two slightly different meanings, depending on context. A book designer, concerned with the sequence of a book, regards it as those pages that form the majority of a book. The body matter is the group of pages that contain the body of the text of the book, the front matter comes before it, containing title pages, content lists, publishers metadata etc. It is followed by the matter, which includes appendices, references, credits. The distinction between the parts, body and other, is that the matter is produced by the author. In some technical publications, appendices are so long and important as part of the book that they are a creative endeavour of the author, in this case they may, like the introduction, be considered as a part of the body matter. At one time, books were produced as letter-books, where the body of text consisted of chapters of solid text, unillustrated. Where illustrations were provided, these were costly and so plates were inserted in sections, either at the end of the body matter, typesetting of the body text is the work of the printer and their typesetter. Typesetting of the parts, the front matter, and pages of the body matter involving specific design of their layout are, if budget permits. Typesetting of the text is generally considered to be rote work, skilled. Computer typesetting was thus first applied to body text and this represented the bulk of the work, yet also that part requiring the least human creative input. Body text is usually typeset in a font, as these are perceived as more readable for text in dense blocks. HTML follows the book designers meaning of body text, there is an HTML element named <body> that serves to delimit the body matter from the front matter that contains metadata such as the page title. The typesetting of the web page is carried out by document body elements within this, there is no specific HTML element for body text in the typesetting sense. <p> would generally be favoured over <div>

37. Section (typography) – In books and documents, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter. Sections are visually separated from each other with a section break and they are a concern in the process of typography and pagination, where it may be desirable to have a page break follow a section break for the sake of aesthetics or readability. In fiction, sections often represent scenes, and accordingly the space separating them is also called a scene break. In written narrative such as fiction, sections are not usually numbered or named, Section breaks are used to signal various changes in a story, including changes in time, location, point-of-view character, mood, tone, emotion, and pace. As a fiction-writing mode, the break can be considered a transition. Some documents, especially legal documents, may have numbered sections, such as Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights, the section sign may be used to reference sections and subsections. Subsections are often written in lowercase Roman numerals, e. g. Section 51 of the Australian Constitution, a document may also be considered to be divided into sections by its headings and subheadings, which may be used for a table of contents. For example, the sections used in Wikipedia can be compiled into a table of contents for an article. Many books, however, only have chapter headings in the table of contents, while a chapter may be divided by section breaks, a group of chapters is conventionally called a part, often identified with a Roman numeral, e. g. Reference material may be divided into sections, the section headers of a Chinese dictionary are one example. Space between paragraphs in a break is sometimes accompanied by an asterism, a horizontal rule, fleurons. An ornamental symbol used as section break does not have an accepted name. Ornamental section breaks can be created using glyphs, rows of lozenges, dingbats, fonts such as Webdings and Wingdings include many such glyphs. In HTML, horizontal rules can be generated using the hr tag, for more ornate presentation, CSS can be used to replace the line with an image

Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights …

The Statute of Anne (the Copyright Act 1709) came into force in 1710.

A copyright certificate for proof of the Fermat theorem, issued by the State Department of Intellectual Property of Ukraine.

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Incunable [videos]

An incunable, or sometimes incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively), is a book, pamphlet, or …

Incunable - Page from Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, printed in red and black by Peter Schöffer (Mainz, 1471). The page exhibits a rubricated initial letter "U" and decorations, marginalia, and ownership stamps of the "Bibliotheca Gymnasii Altonani" (Hamburg).

Page from Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, printed in red and black by Peter Schöffer (Mainz, 1471). The page exhibits a rubricated initial letter "U" and decorations, marginalia, and ownership stamps of the "Bibliotheca Gymnasii Altonani" (Hamburg).

Illumination with doodles and drawings (marginalia), including an open-mouthed human profile, with multiple tongues sticking out. Copulata, "De Anima", f. 2a. HMD Collection, WZ 230 M772c 1485.

Image of two facing pages from "Phisicorum", fols. 57b and 58a, with doodles and drawings. HMD Collection, WZ 230 M772c 1485.

First incunable with illustrations, Ulrich Boner's Der Edelstein, printed by Albrecht Pfister, Bamberg, 1461.

Essay [videos]

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument — but the definition is vague, …

John Locke's 1690 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population

Essay - University students, like these students doing research at a university library, are often assigned essays as a way to get them to analyze what they have read.

University students, like these students doing research at a university library, are often assigned essays as a way to get them to analyze what they have read.

An 1895 cover of Harpers, a US magazine that prints a number of essays per issue.

Professor [videos]

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and …

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Toni Morrison, Emeritus Professor at Princeton University.

Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.

Image: Socrates Louvre

Information [videos]

Information is that which informs. In other words, it is the answer to a question of some kind. It is thus related to …

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Typography [videos]

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when …

Movable type being assembled on a composing stick using pieces that are stored in the type case shown below it

A sixteenth century workshop in Germany showing a printing press and many of the activities involved in the process of printing

A specimen sheet by William Caslon shows printed examples of Roman typefaces.

Nineteenth century wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth (the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln) printed with lead and woodcut type, and incorporating photography

Leather [videos]

Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhide and skin, often cattle hide. It can be …

A variety of leather products and leather-working tools

Drying of leather in East Timor

Leather tanning in Fes, Morocco

Tanned leather in Marrakech

Treasure binding [videos]

A treasure binding, or jewelled bookbinding / jeweled bookbinding is a luxurious book cover using metalwork in gold or …

Gem-encrusted cover of the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram, 870

Ivory plaque, probably from a book cover, Reims late 9th century, with two scenes from the life of Saint Remy and the Baptism of Clovis

Typical Limoges enamel cover, c. 1200

Restored 16th century binding of velvet embroidered with pearls for Elizabeth I, on a volume of church history.

Paper marbling [videos]

Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other …

Endpaper from a book published in Scotland in 1842. Encyclopædia Britannica, 7th edition

Oil-based inks in a tank of water being prepared for marbling.

Two pages of ''waka'' poems by Ōshikōchi Mitsune (859?–925?). 20 cm height, 32 cm wide. Silver, Gold, Color, and ink on suminagashi paper. From a copy of the Sanjurokunin Kashu or "Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" kept in the Hongan-ji Temple, Kyoto. This multi-volume manuscript, which contains the oldest examples of marbled paper known today, was presented to the Emperor Shirakawa on his sixtieth birthday in 1112 C.E. (Narita, 14 and Chambers, 13–16).

A traditional technique adapted to a changed world

Bookplate [videos]

A bookplate (or book-plate, as it was commonly styled until the early 20th C.), also known as ex-librīs [Latin, "from …

George Bancroft's bookplate and signature. "εἰς φαος" is Greek for "Toward the Light". The tablet is an ancient Roman tabula ansata.

Bookplate for Hilprand Brandenburg of Biberach, woodcut, black printing ink, and hand coloring on paper (Germany, 1480). Bookplate is in Jacobus de Voragine’s Sermones quadragesimales (Bopfingen, Württemberg, 1408)

Sir Patrick (Peter) Budge Murray Threipland 4th Bt. of Fingask Castle (1762–1837). From a copy of a 1761 Book of Common Prayer

Bookplate depicting ancient city of Emporion or Empúries, in Catalonia, Spain

Fore-edge painting [videos]

A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of the pages of a book. There are two basic forms, including …

Jerusalem Delivered, an Heroic Poem, translated from the Italian of Torquato Tasso, by John Hoole. London 1797; with fore-edge painting: Trajan's Arch, (Ancona), Tasso in Prison, and the Bridge of Sighs

Image: Childe Harold's Pilreimage Fore Edge Painting

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Book [videos]

A book is a series of pages assembled for easy portability and reading, as well as the composition contained in it. The …

Books

Egyptian papyrus showing the god Osiris and the weighing of the heart.

Book - Folio 14 recto of the 5th century Vergilius Romanus contains an author portrait of Virgil. Note the bookcase (capsa), reading stand and the text written without word spacing in rustic capitals.

A Chinese bamboo book meets the modern definition of Codex

Folio 14 recto of the 5th century Vergilius Romanus contains an author portrait of Virgil. Note the bookcase (capsa), reading stand and the text written without word spacing in rustic capitals.

Book design [videos]

Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and …

Design for a metalwork book cover or treasure binding, by Hans Holbein the Younger

Initial on the opening page of a book printed by the Kelmscott Press

Book design - The spine of the book is an important aspect in book design, especially in the cover design. When the books are stacked up or stored in a shelf, the details on the spine is the only visible surface that contains the information about the book. In a book store, it is often the details on the spine that attract the attention first.

The spine of the book is an important aspect in book design, especially in the cover design. When the books are stacked up or stored in a shelf, the details on the spine is the only visible surface that contains the information about the book. In a book store, it is often the details on the spine that attract the attention first.

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Book frontispiece [videos]

A frontispiece in books is a decorative or informative illustration facing a book's title page, being the verso …

Frontispiece to William Blake's Milton a Poem (1810)

Frontispiece and title page of Matthias Klostermayr's biography (1722).

Portrait of Yung Wing used as the frontispiece of his 1909 book My Life in China and America

Epigraph (literature) [videos]

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component. The …

Facsimile of the original title page for William Congreve's The Way of the World published in 1700, on which the epigraph from Horace's Satires can be seen in the bottom quarter.

Epigraph and dedication page, The Waste Land

Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings

Colophon (publishing) [videos]

In publishing, a colophon is a brief statement containing information about the publication of a book such as the place …

A colophon printed in 1471

Clay tablet: dictionary with colophon indicating storage emplacement in a library. From Warka, ancient Uruk, mid 1st century BC. On display at the Louvre.

Image: John Fortescue, A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of Englande (1st English ed, 1567, colophon) 20140816

Font [videos]

In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of …

Serifs within the Thesis typeface family

A set of optical sizes developed at URW++. The fonts become thicker and more widely spaced as the point size for which they are designed decreases.

Regular and bold versions of three common fonts. Helvetica has a quite monoline design and all strokes increase in weight; less monoline fonts like Optima and Utopia increase the weight of the thicker strokes more and thinner strokes less in bold. In all three designs, the curve on 'n' thins as it joins the left-hand vertical.

Cyrillic italics

Thesis [videos]

A thesis or dissertation is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional …

Doctoral ceremony at Leiden University (7 July 1721).

The cover of the thesis presented by Claude Bernard to obtain his Doctorate of Medicine (1843).

Cover page to Søren Kierkegaard's university thesis (1841).

Edition (book) [videos]

The bibliographical definition of an edition includes all copies of a book printed “from substantially the same setting …

Title-page illustration by Hammatt Billings for Uncle Tom's Cabin, First Edition: Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852

First editions of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy

Incipit [videos]

The incipit (English: ) of a text is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label. In a musical …

Decorated incipit page to the Gospel of Matthew, 1120–1140

The first page of the Vilna Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, folio 2a., with the word "Me-ematai" in the box at the top

Page layout [videos]

Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement of visual elements on a page. It generally …

Page layout - Consumer magazine sponsored advertisements and covers rely heavily on professional page layout skills to compete for visual attention.

Consumer magazine sponsored advertisements and covers rely heavily on professional page layout skills to compete for visual attention.

Editors work on producing an issue of Bild, 1977 in West Berlin. Previous front pages are affixed to the wall behind them.

Book cover [videos]

A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction …

Ivory cover of the Codex Aureus of Lorsch, c. 810, Carolingian dynasty, Victoria and Albert Museum

Early 20th century leather book cover, with gold leaf ornamentation.

Buckram [videos]

Buckram is a stiff cloth, made of cotton, and still occasionally linen or horse hair, which is used to cover and …

Buckram can be dull or shiny

Buckram is available in many colors.

Anthropodermic bibliopegy [videos]

Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. As of April 2016, The Anthropodermic Book …

A book bound in the skin of the murderer William Burke, on display in Surgeons' Hall Museum in Edinburgh.

A book in the Wellcome Library bound in human skin.

Foreword [videos]

A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of …

The foreword to Men I Have Painted, by John McLure Hamilton; 1921

Foreword, to a 1900 book in German

Prologue [videos]

A prologue or prolog (Greek πρόλογος prólogos, from pro, "before" and lógos, "word") is an opening to a story that …

Artwork by Gustave Doré.

Title page of 1616 printing of Every Man in His Humour, a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of the "humours comedy"

Printer's mark [videos]

A printer's mark, device, emblem or insignia was a symbol used as a trademark by early printers starting in the 15th …

The Temple in Jerusalem depicted as the Dome of the Rock on the printer's mark of Marco Antonio Giustiniani, Venice 1545-52

Printer's mark in use in the modern era

Bibliography [videos]

Bibliography (from Greek βιβλίον biblion, "book" and -γραφία -graphia, "writing"), as a discipline, is traditionally …

Bibliographies at the University Library of Graz

Bibliographer workplace in Russia

Pop-up book [videos]

The term pop-up book is often applied to any three-dimensional or movable book, although properly the umbrella term …

Tunnel book

A geometric diagram of the basic principle of a pop-up book: the parallelogram.

Printer's key [videos]

The printer’s key, also known as the number line, is a line of text printed on the copyright page (often the verso of …

A copyright page with the printer’s key underlined. This version of the book is the eighteenth printing.

Class (education) [videos]

A class in education has a variety of related meanings. — It can be the group of students which attends a specific course …

A photograph of a class in Wilmington, Massachusetts in the 2005–2006 school year.

Endpaper [videos]

The endpapers or end-papers of a book (also known as endsheets) are the pages that consist of a double-size sheet …

Endpapers of the original run of books in the Everyman's Library, 1906, based on the art of William Morris's Kelmscott Press.

Dedication (publishing) [videos]

A dedication is the expression of friendly connection or thanks by the author towards another person. The dedication …

The dedication of Orfeo by Monteverdi, 1609

Table of contents [videos]

A table of contents, usually headed simply "Contents" and abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list, usually found on a …

A table of contents

Preface [videos]

A preface or proem is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An …

Preface to the poem Milton by William Blake

Section (typography) [videos]

In books and documents, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter. — Sections are visually separated from each …

Open pages of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, showing an ornate section break on the lower left page created from asterisks. It is used to signal a pause for the reader and a transition in the narrative.

Epilogue [videos]

An epilogue or epilog (from Greek ἐπίλογος epílogos, "conclusion" from ἐπί- "in addition" and λέγειν légein, "to say") …

Illustration from Un Autre Monde epilogue, by Grandville.

Glossary [videos]

A glossary, also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge …

A Glossary of Islamic Legal Terminology

Edition notice [videos]

The edition notice (or copyright page) is the page in a book containing information about the current edition, usually …

Edition notice - Edition notice page of "Open Source Development with CVS" 3rd Edition, by Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar, published by Paraglyph Press, 2004.

Edition notice page of "Open Source Development with CVS" 3rd Edition, by Karl Fogel and Moshe Bar, published by Paraglyph Press, 2004.

Table (information) [videos]

A table is an arrangement of data in rows and columns, or possibly in a more complex structure. Tables are widely used …

An example of a table containing rows with summary information. The summary information consists of subtotals that are combined from previous rows within the same column.

Introduction (writing) [videos]

In an essay, article, or book, an introduction (also known as a prolegomenon) is a beginning section which states the …

First page, introduction to In Flanders Fields

Body text [videos]

Body text is the text forming the main content of a book, magazine, web page or other printed matter. This is as a …

Typical layout of an 1811 body text page, including headers, footers and multiple columns of text

Catchword [videos]

A catchword is a word placed at the foot of a handwritten or printed page that is meant to be bound along with other …

The catchword (in this case the last three letters of a divided word) is at the bottom of the page

Recto and verso [videos]

The terms recto and verso refer to the text written on the "front" and "back" sides of a leaf of paper in a bound item …

Left-to-right language books (such as English)

Right-to-left language books (such as vertical Japanese, Arabic, or Hebrew)

International Standard Book Number [videos]

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. — An ISBN is assigned to …

A 13-digit ISBN, 978-3-16-148410-0, as represented by an EAN-13 bar code

The parts of a 10-digit ISBN and the corresponding EAN‑13 and barcode. Note the different check digits in each. The part of the EAN‑13 labeled "EAN" is the Bookland country code.

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